What started as a kind and supporting gesture from friends has now raised more than $100,000 for one woman who recently came out to her parents and was completely cut off during her sophomore year at college. Emily Scheck’s friend, Grace Hausladen, created a GoFundMe account to start raising money after she discovered her friend was struggling financially. Hausladen said, “She was kicked out of her home for being herself. No one deserves to have their home and siblings taken away from them for being their true selves.”In the post, Hausladen said Scheck’s parents found out about her girlfriend through social media and gave her an ultimatum: Come home and go to therapy, or stay at school and be completely cut off. Hausladen wrote, “Her parents responded with hate: aggressive texts blaming her, and they even dumped of all her stuff she had left at home such as baby pictures, old clothes, childhood toys, etc. into the trunk of her car.”Scheck chose to stay at school to continue earning her business degree and running cross country and track for Canisius college. Currently, according to Hausladen, Scheck is working two jobs, keeping up with her studies, running track and attempting to declare herself an independent. “All the working, running, and school assignments leave Emily no time to actually be a kid in college,” Hausladen’s post continued. Because of the weight of the responsibilities, her friends decided to step in and help. Initially what started as a way to raise $5,000 went as far as to raise $100,515.

What started as a kind and supporting gesture from friends has now raised more than $100,000 for one woman who recently came out to her parents and was completely cut off during her sophomore year at college.

Emily Scheck’s friend, Grace Hausladen, created a GoFundMe account to start raising money after she discovered her friend was struggling financially.

Advertisement

Hausladen said, “She was kicked out of her home for being herself. No one deserves to have their home and siblings taken away from them for being their true selves.”

In the post, Hausladen said Scheck’s parents found out about her girlfriend through social media and gave her an ultimatum: Come home and go to therapy, or stay at school and be completely cut off.

Hausladen wrote, “Her parents responded with hate: aggressive texts blaming her, and they even dumped of all her stuff she had left at home such as baby pictures, old clothes, childhood toys, etc. into the trunk of her car.”

Scheck chose to stay at school to continue earning her business degree and running cross country and track for Canisius college.

Currently, according to Hausladen, Scheck is working two jobs, keeping up with her studies, running track and attempting to declare herself an independent.

“All the working, running, and school assignments leave Emily no time to actually be a kid in college,” Hausladen’s post continued.

Because of the weight of the responsibilities, her friends decided to step in and help. Initially what started as a way to raise $5,000 went as far as to raise $100,515.